Re: New Liaison Statement, "Liaison to IETF on the removal of upper bound in X.509"

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 06 October 2007 20:33 UTC

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Russ Housley wrote:
> Personally, I missed the subtle change from normative to informative.  I 
> suspect many others did too.  If the PKIX WG to make them informative 
> too, then it will have to be done *right now*.  

I see no reason to make such a change at this stage.

S.